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Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’

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2y ago

Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’

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They printed them on Dyneema? You’re telling me we now have the technology to make solar-powered tents and tarps? Fuck yeah!
- It could be totally incredible! I wonder how they get it to stick, and stay stuck, to dyneema though. In my experience it's quite not-glueable. Dye hardly even sticks to it.
- I wish I still used kbin so I could boost this comment
Another win for solar. This industry has been exploding for years with no end in sight.
Should be much easier to apply PV to vehicles if these prototypes become as easily commercially produced as they appear to be.
Very exciting
- Yup. If we also get transparent solar panels (that only absorb invisible light), we could put them basically anywhere. Solar panel picnic blankets. Solar panel doormats. Solar panel monitors!
  
  the reason that solar panels are black is that most of the incoming energy from the sun comes as visible light. If we leave that light unabsorbed, we loose out.
  
  I want to see a wiring diagram that would take advantage of the invisible solar panels. Wiring up invisible solar panels sounds very difficult, unless you use wireless power transmission as Tesla tried to invent?
It sounds promising, and was done with already commercially available materials and equipment.
- If 10 squirrels say so, this must be true.
"mega" sounds weird to describe thin. "micro-thin" sounds better, methinks.
- Someone said this on the original post on one of the technology communities. They probably meant very thin
Can't wait to buy a roll of Solar Sheet to put on the roof - or over a tent.
- Already doable but costly

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